Sharon Weintraub

Beginning in the 1860s, German factories began producing badekinder (bathing children). Of bisque or china, these unjointed figures typically portrayed a plump nude child, standing with legs slightly apart and ...

In the early 1900s, in response to the demand for aquarium ornaments, German manufacturers produced a wide variety of fish tank fancies, from nubile sea nymphs and craggy castles for ...

In my November 3, 2023, article for this website entitled “Who Made These Mermaids,” I discussed the fact that although aquarium catalogs around the turn of the last century swarmed ...

Aquarium catalogs around the turn of the last century are swimming with schools of mermaids for ornamenting aquariums. Unfortunately, other than typically describing these undulating ondines as “imported,” the catalogs ...

The urge to whimsically adorn aquariums appears to have reached its peak in the early decades of the 1900s, with German manufacturers producing a wide and creative range of fish ...